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I think whether you’re having setbacks or not, the role of a leader is to always display a winning attitude.

Colin Powell

We are not going to dwell on those things that divide us. We are going to rejoice in those things that keep us together to make this a better country – to reach down and back to touch every young person in need!
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Country Division Ourselves Person Rejoice Togetherness
The best method of overcoming obstacles is the team method.
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Best Method Obstacle Team
Don’t bother people for help without first trying to solve the problem yourself.
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Help Myself People Problem Solve
I think whether you’re having setbacks or not, the role of a leader is to always display a winning attitude.
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Attitude Leadership Role Thinking Win
Leadership is the art of accomplishing more than the science of management says is possible.
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Accomplishment Art Leadership Management Possible
Every organization should tolerate rebels who tell the emperor he has no clothes.
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Clothes Himself Organization Rebel Tolerance
Don’t let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn’t go with it.
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Ego Position Yourself
Don’t just count your days, make your days count.
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Count Days Yourself
Trust is the glue that holds an org together & the lubricant that moves it forward.
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Hold Move Togetherness Trust
Always do your best. Somebody is watching you.
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Best Watch Yourself
Luck tends to come to people who are prepared.
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Hard Work People Preparation
We can seldom get our children to do what we tell them, but they almost never fail to imitate us.
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Children Failure Imitation Ourselves
You can’t make someone else’s choices. You shouldn’t let someone else make yours.
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Choice Control Yourself
Always be looking for the opportunities, and always be optimistic about what you can do with that opportunity.
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Opportunity Optimistic Yourself
Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.
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Hard Work People Play Serious Work
Be careful what you choose: You may get it.
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Care Choice Yourself
Always focus on the front windshield and not the review mirror.
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Focus Future Mirror Review
You can be sure that the American spirit will prevail over this tragedy.
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Spirit Tragedy Yourself
It is good if your enemy underestimates you. The dumber they think you are the more surprised they are when you kill them.
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Enemy Kill Thinking Yourself
An organization that is not facing up to people who are not getting the job done, is going to have difficulties.
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Difficult Face Organization People
Bad news isn’t wine. It doesn’t improve with age.
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Age Bad Improvement News Wine
The greatest gifts my parents gave to me were their unconditional love and a set of values.
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Gift Greatness Love Myself Parents Value
The best way to create a winning team is to train them, give them everything they need to get the job done and second, make sure they know what the job is and what the job will be. So you connect strategy to resources.
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Best Connection Creation Job Resources Team Training Way Yourself
Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off.
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People Responsibility
Effective leaders are made, not born. They learn from trial and error, and from experience.
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Born Errors Experience Leadership Learning
Is there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country? The answer is “no.” That’s not America.
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Country Racism Wrong
The freedom to do your best means nothing unless you are willing to do your best.
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Best Freedom Willing Yourself

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